xso
Tribune
Keep on supporting Margot and the RF team! All positive forces are needed (and cash..
) to make the Seditiosa project a reality and a success!! My main interest is also in the Seditiosa project, but I will also ofc watch Pygmalion.
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) to make the Seditiosa project a reality and a success!! My main interest is also in the Seditiosa project, but I will also ofc watch Pygmalion.
Margot
Governor
39 Lashes and the Roman Scorpion
The week is ending with a large post at Patreon dealing with the 39 Lashes in Seditiosa.
In it we go over some very interesting details of what we have in mind for the film. I’m sharing here a little bit, just a little bit, a little taste, a little tease:
The reaction to the 39 Lashes post compels us to continue on the subject. One comment in particular stands out because it points to one of the most critical elements in a script, Character Development.
In the case of the protagonist of the story, her development will certainly include some of the points made in the astute observation of one of our (few) Patrons::
We are making clear that the crucifixion is preceded by the flagrum, the effects of which make the vision of the crucified all the more dreadful and if the crucified are three beautiful young women, it is even more monstrous. Josephus called it “the most pitiable of deaths.”
There’s one detail not known by most, sometimes the Roman scourge contained a hook at the end and was given the terrifying name “scorpion.” A lash from this scourge would make deeper lashes from the shoulders to the waist.
One must wonder now, when our female christ is finally nailed to her patibulum and she’s about to be raised up to her cross, will she get a taste of the Scorpion? Will Judith? Will Magdalena? We will go into more details of what happens to the three amazing ladies after their arrest.
On the second day of next month and for 5 days only, our VIP Patrons will be invited to watch a movie.
In the meantime, Jac is going nuts with the set for 69 Année Érotique. He’s going physical again, moving all the things he moved out of the places, where they belong, again, with the added work of having to organized it all again. It looks like it’s going to take another week before they can start shooting that movie. He’s planning some “dress rehearsals” for this coming week.
Jac is almost done with the Pitch for the IndieGoGo campaign, but he needs to record a bit more with Dani, Mila and Simonne. That too is part of next week’s work. We should be ready to launch the campaign by the end of the week.
After the campaign is up and running, we’ll begin the production of 69.
We might be getting the date of release of Pygmalion next week. That too, is part of the work.
I will have more news soon!!
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Tribune
Thanks' for a lovely update Margot, a good start of the new week! (In Europe it is now Monday.)
I have a feeling that this film will be great, based upon how you describe your production ideas!
It is hard to wait for the final film though, but as mentioned many times before, the best way to follow the lovely ladies' ordeals and way to the cross is by joining Patreon!!! (+ it gives you the opportunity to discuss the production!)
Please fellow cruxers, do so and support this unique project!!!
I have a feeling that this film will be great, based upon how you describe your production ideas!
It is hard to wait for the final film though, but as mentioned many times before, the best way to follow the lovely ladies' ordeals and way to the cross is by joining Patreon!!! (+ it gives you the opportunity to discuss the production!)
Please fellow cruxers, do so and support this unique project!!!
Margot
Governor
Relaxing Before The Storm
This week began with a rehearsal. Simonne and Jac worked an afternoon rehearsing lines from 69 Année Érotique. Not only the lines, of course, but the way it should look, the camera positions that will be needed, the costume she will wear and the movements of the characters in the scene.
This is not common for Jac. He normally gives the script to his actors a week or so before the production starts. No rehearsals and when they are in the set the day of the shooting, he directs them to do what they must do.
For this new film, however, he has some special moments that require more preparation and careful thought.
Simonne and Jac were alone, no cameraman, nobody else in the set except the five cats, one of whom decided to have a cameo during the rehearsal.
Jac had to do the usual, set up the camera, the lights, the music, the drinks and found out he has a problem with the sound recorder and he might need a new one.
The rehearsal was over by 5, when Simonne had to rush out to do what she always does at that time of the day. Jac was happy with the results.
We’re preparing another post for our Patreon page, for the 6 faithful supporters who are enjoying the inside work of the production. We are concentrating on the background story for Yael and her followers. What do they know, what does Yael know about her family, her past, her ancestry, which is the stone upon which her story is based.
Some of that background will be in the dialogues, it has to be, but a lot of it will not be, it will be the subtext for the actresses. I read a bit of what Jac is writing as the background story and it blew my mind. It’s a story in and of itself. It could make a great book, a Game of Thrones style TV series, a controversial documentary, all three into one. Really.
One part of a very intriguing paragraph:
Yael’s ancestor, known as Jana or Janai, is referred to as a Gevurah, a great lady, whose wisdom, sense of humor and irony passed from generation to generation of women who kept her teachings and writings in great confidence because they were aware that it revealed who wrote what their religious leaders call…
I dare not to say anymore than that. And I might be advising Jac not to reveal too much of that lengthy background story, even to our supporters… it is that freaking good.
We are seeing a ‘normalising’ of the situation. What I mean by that is that it appears that we have to face the reality of the new times. People are not spending the way they used to. That means that we have to look into alternatives to cover our regular needs, which means weekly and monthly payrolls for 9 people, world range operational expenses, cat food for five cats and most importantly, tons of litter.
One alternative is pretty obvious. We need to increase our outreach way beyond our regular outlets, like CF and GIMP. One regular phenomenon we see is that when someone new discovers our films, the newbie gets one film, timidly, maybe an obvious one or low priced, like Via Crucis of Jane. Later on, or next day, this person gets two or three… and before you know it, the new fan spent 500 dollars in our films in less than a week. We need to find 1000 of those new comers every couple of months.
There is what I can describe as a general apathy in many fronts. Maybe I’m justifying that by blaming it on the economic situation on planet earth. But maybe it is just that, apathy in our familiar fronts with the known exceptions of course.
We are sure that once Seditiosa is done, it will sell extremely well. And before that happens we have a bunch of projects to be released during the rest of this year and the next. We know that when we release all those films, they will bring in more cash. We’re planning those releases to start at the end of October, so we expect to have extra cash before, during and after the production of Seditiosa.
We had something like that when we were producing Maleficarum and the other movies in 2011. We had Sirwiñakuy in theaters and we released a bunch of Red Feline titles between 2009 and 2011, like the famous and a favorite of many Agent X.
This year, by the time we begin the production of Seditiosa, we will have some of the releases I mentioned and at least one film in theatrical release, Pygmalion. Will we repeat the experience of 2011?
I can’t predict the future, but who knows, maybe like it happened in the past, we will make three big movies in a row, like with did with Maleficarum, Barbazul and Le Marquis De La Croix.
In the next few months we’ll be producing 69 Année Érotique, Seditiosa and one film that has not title yet but it is set in Roman Times, like Seditiosa. The working title is A Roman Crucifixion Story. We will have the magnificent cast, the crew, the costumes, the sets, the props, so, why not?
I have to say that I’m disappointed by the lack of interest in places like CF and GIMP. I’ll keep posting in these places but I don’t see that as my main interest. I have to admit that sometimes I don’t feel like visiting as often as I do, which is everyday. Que será, será.
I’m hoping the Patreon page will eventually grow.
We’ll launch the IndieGoGo campaign very soon and we’ll be getting in touch with past supporters directly. We will be promoting it wherever we think will give some positive results.
And a final note. We were sad to hear that Jean-Luc Godard died (today, Tuesday) at age 91. He practically created the new wave of French Cinema and inspired many young crazy people to go and make movies, one of those was Jac and another was Amy who firmly believed that to make a movie all you need is a gun and a girl.
Ok… that’s that for now. Back to the big work.
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LadyKiller
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Are jac’s actresses also his lovers ?
Margot
Governor
Facing The Perfect Storm
Rome wasn’t built in one day, the saying goes and it was said as a comment to one of my posts. I certainly agree with that and I can see that not only empires or great cities or big buildings take time, so do films and that is the case with 69 Année Érotique.
This new film will be the first of what we hope will be many Big Production Values movies. This after a few years of working on the limited way of a cast and crew of two or three, in a single location, where all the action takes place and where Jac has to do most of the work. Movies like the CruXtreme series or Agent X.
The BPV movies require a lot, a large crew, a large cast, a number of locations. Like a normal movie. And they require cash, lots of it, and sometimes that cash runs out. But most of all, they need a lot of work in the organization itself and that’s where 69 Année Érotique is. Big and little details that must be resolved first.
While 69 Année Érotique gets a lot of attention, Seditiosa, the story of the young crucified FC is also getting the work done but with a wall of indifference surrounding it. Sad to say, it shouldn’t be that way.
69 Année Érotique does not need a lot of outside attention or outpouring of emotions. It only needs the inspiration that the subject brings to its author, that’s Jac. His motivations behind 69 Année Érotique are straight forward, he wants to tell that story and he doesn’t need to break the bank to do it. He has what he needs and he knows that there’s a sure audience of at least one person for that film.
It is not the same for Seditiosa. It’s a risky story, with a built in controversy that can make millions loose their temper or worse, their souls. But that’s not what is our main concern. Like I said before,
Our version will have women in the leading roles of those marched to be crucified and it will be the most outrageous, demanding and sadistic adaptation of the 2,000 years old story that inspired books, films, religions, cults…….
Seditiosa needs hard cash, lots of it, and we’re about to launch a campaign to raise 25,000 dollars… that’s it, enough to cover the limousine expenses for The Passion of The Christ, a film that cost 25,000,000 to make.
We will be asking for contributions from 100 to thousands of dollars per individual… and yet, we have only 6 faithful supporters willing to spend between 10 to 30 bucks a month in our Patreon site. Hmm.
As I type these words, Jac is busy multitasking again, working on the pitch, editing, working on two scripts, writing the background story for the characters in Seditiosa, feeding his cats, walking his dog… and that’s just in the mornings.
He’s also working on the set, sharing his love with his faithful cast and, most importantly, letting me know of all his tribulations, which include his powerful drill’s battery charger that died and because of it he can’t drill the walls to set up those chains he needs to have ready to shoot the whipping scenes in 69 Année Érotique and if that was not enough trouble, his Sennheiser sound recorder is showing signs that something went totally wrong so he’ll need to hire a sound recordist right away, and so much more that would take a week of writing it extensively … but he unloaded enough complaints on me to make me aware of the situation with plenty of details for me to inform our fans and bitch and bitch some more. C’est la vie!
And yet, Jac finds moments of relaxation with either one of the actresses or all three of them, a cat or all five of them, a book, if it deals with the old testament nowadays, or when walking Rocky, because he can do a lot of thinking while he strolls from street block to street block for as many street blocks his dog demands to do his business and learn the news about what’s going on with all the other city dogs.
The pressure is mounting to launch the campaign for Seditiosa so the production of 69 Année Érotique can finally get on the road.
But those two are not the only productions we are working on. We have the theatrical release of Pygmalion for November and the release of CruXtreme V – The Playmates for the end of October.
And that’s not all, we’re preparing a few posts for the Patreon page with information that blew my mind and I’m sure it will blow yours. Sometimes I think he should turn Seditiosa into a series… and that’s a joke on my part so don’t assume that it is something that is happening.
But, in the other hand, wouldn’t a series be kind of amazing? All that background story I’m hearing about, covering a thousand years of history and myth blending into a fantastic tale of … universal struggle.
I’ll have more news and a lot more bitching on my next post… or will I?
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wanttoknowmore
Executioner
You have mentioned the Mel Gibson film a few times. I certainly hope you are not using that unrealistic blood fest as the basis for the whipping and crux scenes in Seditiosa. I know of no one outside the religious fringe that thought it was a great film. With regard to fund raising, once your Indygogo link is up and a production schedule is indeed finalized, you may get beeter results. Some may not want to do the Pateron thing, as they feel the movie will be used on other projects instead of the Seditiosa film. Be honest on your plans with regard to what you plan on doing (the stuff you have shared with regard to the plot and scences that I have seen sound terrific, except for my long running concern that they girls in general and main charater in particular will be beaten to a point of idiotacy from a trauma level to complete the walk and last any time crucified). Many where VERY upset at the promise of a great crux scene at the end of Justine, only to have whatever that was actually released. AND stick to your schedule of filming and release. I get the impression things are already "slipping".
Agreed on the Justine crucifixion scene. I don't know what the production values of that film were, but that scene was very disappointing. The nailing wasn't even shown, the girls were completely passive, and I really don't like the scaffolding aesthetic. I really hope Seditiosa goes in a different direction.
As for Patreon and support, what wanttoknowmore says is probably true. Some people might be waiting to have more clarity on the project before they jump on board. Indiegogo will probably help. Another thing that will help I think is once you have some images from the movie, consider sharing them in other threads in this forum. They don't have to be images from production because by that point it's probably too late, but even concept images or early rehearsals will be good. If you are looking to get the level of support escalating quickly, I think people will need to see something that gets them excited and dispels doubts. Proof of concept if you will. Maybe you can consider making title posters of all the main characters, or digital composite images. Just throwing some ideas out there.
I'll be curious to see what kind of material the Indiegogo campaign will have too.
As for Patreon and support, what wanttoknowmore says is probably true. Some people might be waiting to have more clarity on the project before they jump on board. Indiegogo will probably help. Another thing that will help I think is once you have some images from the movie, consider sharing them in other threads in this forum. They don't have to be images from production because by that point it's probably too late, but even concept images or early rehearsals will be good. If you are looking to get the level of support escalating quickly, I think people will need to see something that gets them excited and dispels doubts. Proof of concept if you will. Maybe you can consider making title posters of all the main characters, or digital composite images. Just throwing some ideas out there.
I'll be curious to see what kind of material the Indiegogo campaign will have too.
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Iconoclast12
Magistrate
I understand the importance of dialogue and feedback, but these comments are incredibly unfair. You yourself have been interacting with Margot on the Patreon, and she has been consistently responding to your comments and questions. And nothing in her latest post implies that she is trying to imitate the Passion of the Christ.
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I agree with the fact that Justine's crux scene was not the best even though the other aspects of the film were pretty good. I was an Associate Producer level backer for Justine and the lack of a good crux scene in Justine disappointed me. I know however that you guys can deliver with a great Passion Play crux scene since the one at the end of Monxa Mala was very good. The crux scene at the end of Monxa Mala is my most favorite crux scene by Jac so far and I feel that it can be even better in Seditiosa. I may not be able to be able to invest as much into Seditiosa as I did with Justine due to personal reasons, but I hope the Indiegogo campaign goes well for you,
wanttoknowmore
Executioner
I truely hope you are right. It just seems that The Passion of the Christ film keeps being mentioned. Maybe I am reading too much into it.
Crucified Life
Governor
I myself only mentioned the Gibson Film in response to you mentioning it earlier so it certainly wasn't me who knows something more about what they are doing. I think (and hope) it is just you reading too much into it like you said. I don't think the final product will look like the Gibson film. Probably more like Jesus of Nazareth 1977, or maybe Lamb of God in terms of look and style, only female and with far greater emphasis on the crucifixion in terms of the proportion of time of the film that deals with the physical crucifixion side of things.
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Margot
Governor
The Scourge And The Passion
Words matter and my words seem to matter a lot more than I thought. I understand that.
Seditiosa is, still, in its development stage and maybe it is necessary for me to give some more insight about what it means in our world. The world of movie making, that is.
A project begins with an idea, which then it turns into a concept and then the development starts with the writing of the script. A film can be in development for years, like, for instance, 69 Année Érotique, or months, like Maleficarum, or days or maybe a hours, like Le Marquis De La Croix.
In the case of Seditiosa, the proposal came to us in July and it had a basic script, which was very much based on the original story, that of the gospels with a woman in the place of The Christ. A Female Christ.
A nice picture from a big supporter
Once the proposal was approved, it entered the first stage of development, The Script.
There are some elements to the story that are obvious and will be needed in the film, costumes, locations, props. it’s a period film. That’s when Seditiosa entered a second stage of development, the work for Fundraising.
But we can’t start the fundraising without some idea of who our main cast will be, particularly our Female Christ, so, Seditiosa entered the first stage of pre-production, The Casting. It was obvious who would be cast in the roles of the three women who will be crucified. To Jac it was even more obvious that the one to be the FC was Simonne, who had a brilliant performance during her crucifixion in Monxa Mala.
That’s where we are right now.
The Script has its demands, one of them is the development of the characters and that in itself has its own demands, their background, specially that of our main character.
Jac was in France at one point, he was working on the casting for Martyr, Camille was working with him and he had a small team doing the footwork. One in the team, Olivier, became the official AD, (Assistant Director). Another member of his casting team, Gerome, the man manning the camera at the time, had extensive experience in film.
As Jac discussed his script with them, because they were looking for very important leading characters, Gerome kept asking Why. Like a 4 year old child that needs to know the why to everything.
Jac understood. You cannot have a scene without a reason for it, and it has to lead to another scene with its own reason for existence, and then another one… and so on. So… the big question when writing a script is WHY?
Why is our female christ the way she is? Why are her disciples following her? Why is she arrested, beaten and crucified? Why, why, why …
For the story of The Christ there are all those scrolls dating back to a few thousand years BC. Most in the form of re-interpreted prophesy. Does the prophesy apply to our FC?
That’s where the background comes in and that’s where Jac is in the script.
Another nice picture from our big supporter
I was recently watching the HBO series Rome, because I wanted to see some costumes from those days. I love the series now, I’m hooked. One thing that I can say is that I saw 25,000 dollars on every shot. I kept saying to myself, that shot cost 25,000, that other shot too… and the other… the entire scene probably cost a couple of hundred thousand… and the episode, a couple of million, if not more… yes…
In our case, an extra will probably be on the low end of the spectrum, that extra, who has nothing to say except be there, in the crowd, will cost around 25 per day. If we need that extra for 4 days, she or he will cost 100 bucks, right there. 50 of those extras, if we want a nice looking crowd, would cost 5,000!
That is the cost if the extras are naked, of course. If the extras wear something like a robe, sandals, head scarf and so on … well, then we need to add more to the budget and to be on the really cheap side, that’s another 1500 just for the Extras!
Another important, very important issue The Atmosphere, the way the film will look, the way the streets, the fields, everything within the sight of the lens will look and what kind of ambience we have to create to give the film the right tone, the awesome style it needs.
To accomplish this we are scouting places where we might be able to create the look of the times we want to recreate. Not an easy task in South America where the Roman Empire had no presence. The first European architecture influence arrived in the 1500s. All colonial. We have to go back a thousand years or more. Do we have to build a Middle East city? That would be too costly… maybe some adobe walls painted in orange would to the trick. Lot’s of dark orange brown walls in those times.
The production details of the movie comes much later, when everything else is in place, the script, the funds, the locations, the costumes, the cast, the crew and so on. Then, and only then, Jac will sit with his production team and design the shots and the look of the film itself.
That’s when he’ll instruct the make-up people on how he wants the lashes on the women’s skin to look like, knowing that as each of the victims receive each lash, the effect of the lash marking the skin is created right away, but it must be preserved for continuity. The marks left by the lash must be photographed, they must be worked on for the next angle, the next shot, the next scene… and that is the work of production, not of development, or pre production. And that will be done when its time comes.
But the marks of whip is the one issue in constant discussion.
The Passion of the Christ is one film we use as reference for a number of things. It cost 25,000,000, and we’re trying to raise 25,000. Mel Gibson used his own money to produce it, which means no studio would touch it, and he made 600,000,000 mostly because of the large religious fringe, which obviously is quite large. I wonder how many patrons we would have if we were appealing to them for a film exactly like The Passion of the Christ. One idea that comes to mind is…. wait for it… The Rapture!
Another reason we use The Passion of The Christ as reference is to make comparisons with other films on the subject, like The Last Temptation or J of Nazareth and how other movie makers dealt with the issues in the story, particularly the scourging and the crucifixion.
We are not ready to go into detail of what the scenes will look like because we don’t have a budget yet. Not only that, we don’t have the locations, the props, the costumes. So, we don’t know, we can only discuss the possible scenarios.
We cannot imitate other films because we don’t have 25,000,000, not even 1 million…. we hope to have more than 10,000 and see how far we can take that cash. We did pretty well with Justine, considering the non favorable conditions Jac had to work with.
Justine was not about a crucifixion, it was about Justine and her multiple misadventures in despair, and not all of them. Most of the story takes place in Rodin’s realm, his dungeon, his bedroom, his house exterior, all of which was nicely built with all those props, particularly The Wheel. The crucifixion scene was not central to the story, it was an epilogue and there were some issues with the production at that time that worked against it.
Seditiosa is about the crucifixion, that’s the central theme of the film and all the attention will go to dramatize that central part of the story, like the dungeon scenes in Justine did for Ronin’s drama with his ladies.
Having said that, the production will depend a lot on how much money we will have when we begin shooting the film.
We don’t have pictures of the movie because the movie has not been made. We won’t have pictures of rehearsal until the time we start rehearsing, we won’t have pictures of the locations, or the costumes, or the props, until we have them and to have all that we need to find some cash. Thus, if we need to show the movie before we make the movie then we’re in a bind.
And that’s how things go.
Monxa Mala was about the torture and crucifixion of the nuns. All 6 nuns suffered torture, 2 of them died on The Rack, the other four were crucified, not at the same time, but in pairs. Through out the entire movie someone was being torture, sometimes two or three at the same time. The entire production was dedicated to their torments and the production work was intensely concentrated on the central theme of the film, the priest going nuts and torturing anything that moved. Each torture planned and carried out with overwhelming details.
Everything in Seditiosa leads to the crucifixion of the FC and her two companions in pain. And here comes the comparison to The Passion of the Christ again. That film was about the last couple of days in the life of Christ, it concentrated on his arrest, scourging and crucifixion, with some silly flashbacks to his better days with his mom.
Seditiosa won’t go back to her good old days with mom and siblings. The reason or reasons for what is to come will be stablished in the first 20 minutes of the film… in Jac’s current work, it means in the first 20 pages of the script, and then it will go into the nitty gritty of the story. The troubles, the arrests, the scourging, the sentencing, the walk to the Skull’s Hill, the crucifixion, the agony on the cross… and the end. That’s at least 70 minutes of extensive suffering for all three of our leading ladies. There’s no surprise ending, we all know how it will end, the story deals with the how it got to that point and the question to answer in the story is WHY?
We shall see what the new week brings.
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xso
Tribune
Thanks for this interesting and exciting description about the challenges (and joy's!) in the film production business.
I think you are magicians who can produce a lot of quality and good movies considering the funds you have available! (Hopefully this is clearer for us CF:ers after today's post from you.)
I am sure you will make good use of whatever funds that will be available for the Seditiosa project (The first real Female Christ film ever!!) and make the best film possible. (In retrospect contributors will be able to say, this project became a reality because of my financial support.)
Let's hope that the fundraising account is available soon, so we can start promoting for real. In the meantime, spend a few bucks as a general support by becoming a Patreon! Skip the next Pizza and support the first FC film ever!
As mentioned many times, the correlation between funds available and film quality is very high!
So fellow CF:ers, pick up your Visa or whatever card and become Patreons + look out for the promotion account + buy existing films!!!
Show that 'In Margot and team we trust'!! Amen!
I think you are magicians who can produce a lot of quality and good movies considering the funds you have available! (Hopefully this is clearer for us CF:ers after today's post from you.)
I am sure you will make good use of whatever funds that will be available for the Seditiosa project (The first real Female Christ film ever!!) and make the best film possible. (In retrospect contributors will be able to say, this project became a reality because of my financial support.)
Let's hope that the fundraising account is available soon, so we can start promoting for real. In the meantime, spend a few bucks as a general support by becoming a Patreon! Skip the next Pizza and support the first FC film ever!
As mentioned many times, the correlation between funds available and film quality is very high!
So fellow CF:ers, pick up your Visa or whatever card and become Patreons + look out for the promotion account + buy existing films!!!
Show that 'In Margot and team we trust'!!
Amen! 
Great work in progress, may it prove a triumphant success!
@Margot - I don't suppose you've read my 'Eulalia Christa'?
https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/resources/eulalia-christa-the-passion.188/
@Margot - I don't suppose you've read my 'Eulalia Christa'?
https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/resources/eulalia-christa-the-passion.188/
Margot
Governor
I'll take a look at it. I just downloaded it. Thank you for the link.
zenzero2
Assistant executioner
“Gospel according to Mary ", the shooting of the new Sky Original film begins.Will premiere soon on Sky and in streaming on NOW. The story is taken from a novel by Barbara Alberti, an Italian writer.
The film is made in Sardinia (island of Italy) with the contribution of the Sardinia Region, Department of Education, Cultural Heritage, Information, Entertainment and Sport and with the support of the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation and the Municipality of Cagliari.
Sky movie (obvoiusly) has no funding problems!
The film is made in Sardinia (island of Italy) with the contribution of the Sardinia Region, Department of Education, Cultural Heritage, Information, Entertainment and Sport and with the support of the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation and the Municipality of Cagliari.
Sky movie (obvoiusly) has no funding problems!
Thinking about the setting - I think a lot of portrayals of the life and crucifixion of Christ tend to overdo the 'Roman' aspect. While Jerusalem of course had the Temple, and some grand public buildings, most of the ordinary dwellings even in the city would have been quite simple brick or even adobe type buildings, and in the villages and small towns of Galilee even more so. I think older parts of some towns and villages in your part of the world, Margot, would have the same 'atmosphere' - which, as you've said, is more important than historical accuracy.
Margot
Governor
Another Nazarene?
To anyone looking from the outside, and to some in the inside, there’s chaos at Pachamama Films / Red Feline HQ. Total chaos, it appears that way. Chaos is not always negative, it means something is happening that requires some measures to be taken and to be taken right away.
There are always obstacles of all kinds that appear on the road taken. We are facing a few of those moments. One of those is and it always will be the economic one, but that is a recurring issue that began in 1998, when we started the non stop production of movies, over 60 movies since then, and it will continue to be so for the next centuries to come.
Then there are those obstacles that are particular to a project, like needs that haven’t been covered, or mental blocks, or the crashing of ideas, or the indifference of the many, or the deadlines approaching hard on and so many others.
But when halos appear around the sun, like it happened in La Paz just now, then we’re in for a big storm or something as huge as an earthquake. One thing is for sure, something is going to be shaking or storming or climaxing.
It is the first day of Spring here, Equinox, as they call it, it’s also the day of youth, love, students and everything bright and shinny. And yet…
Yesterday we posted at Patreon something we’ve been preparing for a couple of days, the background to the story of Seditiosa. As Jac note down his critical points to What Moves our FC, he interjected one conjecture:
And a last note. We were exploring the possibility of changing the title of the film from Seditiosa to something like Yahel The Nazarene, we did a search to see if that exists somewhere and… It Does!
Changing a title is not uncommon, of course.
When Amy gave her first script to Jac, it was titled, Monsieur Montez. Jac liked it, he produced it and Amy directed her first feature film. The title was changed to Sirwiñakuy in the middle of post production because Jac thought that the old Aymara tradition of kidnapping a woman for a marriage trial was more appropriate to the story, it even had a song, which was very nice, Amy agreed and it was changed.
The same happened with Maleficarum. The project began with the title Santo Oficio (Holy Office) and again, as Jac began to work on the production it occurred to him that the best title for a film about the inquisition is, of course, Maleficarum!
Other films titles were clear cut, Justine, Olalla, Barbazul (Bluebeard).
And as Jac was working with the script for Seditiosa, with a title that he picked and liked because he felt that it fit the story well, he got involved with the aforementioned background which in turn gave his characters more complex motivations to their actions and a deeper meaning to the outcome, something about 5 scrolls and old secrets and a famous line of healers and writers, all women, that are the protagonist lineage … and what it all means.
Then the name of the central character came up as part of the title, and perhaps because of films like Jesus Of Nazareth, or The Passion of Christ, or King of Kings… which describe or imply the main character in the title, in those cases, Jesus.
Oh the tribulations! One phrase popped up in his brain when he least expected, Yahel The Nazarene. A quick search in google showed a couple of results with the entire phrase, one of which is someone claiming to be the second coming of Christ and another an Israeli musician, along with a bunch of images of pretty women with the name Yael or Yahel.
He imagined the poster with the possible new title.
After his search and some meditation and exchange of ideas with his five cats and two of his pillows, Jac concluded that he needs to think about it and gave himself two days to decide. The new title, if there’s a new title, has to be part of the IndieGoGo campaign.
In the meantime, the other source of chaos, the up and coming production of 69 Année Érotique, has its own little and big details to work on, including some events in the lives of the protagonists that affect the scheduling.
Jac has to set a date before Friday, when the four protagonists will have a meeting of the minds and bodies and one new face, Geraldine, will go through her first test in front of the cameras, where Jac will show her the ropes… of what can happen with a nasty looking whip.
All things are coming to a climax… indeed!
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